Patents by Inventor Jurgen Zimmermann
Jurgen Zimmermann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Patent number: 9795474Abstract: A hydrophilic intraocular lens storage system includes: a) a substantially air tight container containing a small quantity of free water; and b) a foldable hydrophilic intraocular lens disposed within the container at a location wherein the lens is not immersed in liquid. The storage system can be employed to maintain the hydrophilic intraocular lens in a foldable state without being immersed in liquid. The method includes the step of storing the foldable intraocular lens within a substantially air tight package containing free water, the lens being stored within the package at a location wherein the lens is not immersed in liquid.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, AAREN SCIENTIFIC INC.Inventors: Robert Glick, Jürgen Zimmermann, Marco Müller
-
Publication number: 20150223931Abstract: A hydrophilic intraocular lens storage system includes: a) a substantially air tight container containing a small quantity of free water; and b) a foldable hydrophilic intraocular lens disposed within the container at a location wherein the lens is not immersed in liquid. The storage system can be employed to maintain the hydrophilic intraocular lens in a foldable state without being immersed in liquid. The method includes the step of storing the foldable intraocular lens within a substantially air tight package containing free water, the lens being stored within the package at a location wherein the lens is not immersed in liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Robert Glick, Jürgen Zimmermann, Marco Müller
-
Publication number: 20110061481Abstract: A positioning device (1) for positioning a load (2) having at least one shaft (4) extending longitudinally in the axial direction (3) and at least one nut (5) engaging the shaft (4) and having at least one housing (6), with an axial bearing (7) being arranged in said housing (6) and the shaft (4) and/or the nut (5) being supported in the axial direction (3) at the axial bearing (7), with the axial bearing (7) being fastened at the housing (6) via at least one fastening bolt (8), with the fastening bolt (8) being guided through a recess (9) in the housing wall (10) of the housing (6) and fastened at the axial bearing (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventor: Jurgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: 7816452Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing propylene polymer compositions in at least two-stage process wherein, in a first stage, a propylene homopolymer or a propylene copolymer comprising propylene and at least a CZ-CIO-1-alkenes other than propylene, containing at least 85% by weight of propylene, is prepared by polymerization and, in a second stage, ethylene and at least a comonomer selected from propylene and C4-C,o1alkenes are polymerized to give an ethylene polymer, comprising at least 90% by weight of ethylene, wherein the amount of the ethylene polymer in the propylene polymer composition ranges from 10 to 50% by weight and the propylene polymer composition has a melt flow rate MFR, in accordance with ISO 1133 at 230° C. and 2.16 kg, of from 2 to 50 g/10 min.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Basell Poliolifine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Ulrich Clemens Dahn, Wolfgang Bidell, Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann, Joachim Roesch, Guenther Schweier
-
Patent number: 7670563Abstract: A centrifuge has a bucket for receiving the product to be centrifuged, and a support which is configured to be inserted in the bucket and receive microtiter plates and the like. The support has substantial stability and comprises a generally planar base and four upstanding lateral walls which are integrally formed with the base and which are coupled together at their upper edges to form a substantially self-contained enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: European Molecular Biology LaboratoryInventors: Jürgen Zimmermann, Christian Boulin, Vladimir Benes, Leo Burger
-
Patent number: 7580502Abstract: An arrangement for positioning an X-ray machine, with an input and an output device, for interactive control, with a memory region, in which digitised X-ray images and X-ray machine data are stored, an interface, by means of which information is exchanged with the X-ray machine, a pointing device for selecting regions in digitized X-ray images, a processing unit, which carries out calculations based on the digitized X-ray images, the associated X-ray machine data and the selected region, in order to determine control data such that the X-ray machine is controlled whereby, on taking an image, the selected region is screened.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Sirona Dental Systems GmbHInventors: Michael Dalpiaz, Ulrich Schulze-Ganzlin, Werner Günther, Jürgen Zimmermann
-
Publication number: 20090087445Abstract: The invention primarily relates to an amino acid sequence EKKEQKEKEK KEQEIKKKFK LTGPIQVIHL AKACCDVKGG KNELSFKQGE QIEIIRITDN PEGKWLGRTA RGSYGYIKTT AVEIDYDSLK LKKD (=SEQ ID NO 1), a protein recognition domain comprising said amino acid sequence, the use of said amino acid sequence or protein recognition domain for identifying redox-dependent protein-protein or protein-lipid interactions, and to a method for the redox potential dependent detection of target molecules; the invention also relates to the use of said amino acid sequence as a marker for measuring the redox potential in cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V.Inventors: Christian Freund, Jurgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: 7482406Abstract: Olefin polymer composition comprising (by weight, unless otherwise specified): A) 60-95% of a propylene homopolymer or copoloymer having a Polydispersity Index (P.I.) value of from 4.6 to 10 and a content of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C NMR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 98 molar, B) 5-40% of a copolymer of ethylene containing from 40% to 70% of propylene or C4-C10 ?-olefins) or of combinations thereof, and optionally minor proportions of a diene; said composition having a Temperature Rising Elution Fractionation (TREF) profile, obtained by fractionation in xylene and collection of fractions at temperatures of 40° C., 80° C. and 90° C., in which the ethylene content Y of the fraction collected at 90° C. satisfies the following relation (1): Y??0.8+0.035X+0.0091X2 wherein X is the ethylene content of the fraction collected at 40° C. and both X and Y are expressed in percent by weight, and a value of intrinsic viscosity [?] of the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Jean News, Paola Massari, Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: 7400880Abstract: A method of announcing an apparatus to a system containing a central apparatus and at least one individual apparatus is distinguished in that the announcement is effected by optical communication, preferably in the infrared range. In that respective information about the apparatuses in the system is stored in the central apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Hydrometer Electronic GmbHInventors: Kerstin Churt, Ulrich Pöhler, Jürgen Zimmermann, Andreas Hanft
-
Patent number: 7324680Abstract: A method and device for identifying objects, especially teeth, on a digitized X-ray picture, by using image processing algorithms to localize areas containing the object by segmenting and/or edge detection, these areas being computationally linked with parameters of the X-ray unit and, optionally, with patient-heightened specific parameters. Another method and device for assigning information to objects, especially teeth, determined in a digitized X-ray picture or in a schematic representation, includes a first step detecting the digitized X-ray image for the schematic representation, a second step in which a determination of objects manually or automatically ensues in the event these objects have not yet been determined, a third step selecting the object for which additional information should be stored, retrieved or deleted, and a fourth step in which a reference tht is stored is followed for a query operation to determine the information displayed by using such reference.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Sirona Dental Systems GmbHInventor: Jürgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: 7196140Abstract: The invention relates to highly flowable propylene block copolymers that comprise 50 to 80 wt.-% of a propylene homopolymer and 10 to 70 wt.-% of a propylene copolymer having 5 to 50 wt.-% of a C2–C8 alk-1-ene polymerized into it that is different from propylene, and that are obtainable from the gaseous phase by a two-step polymerization by means of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system. In a first polymerization step, the propylene is polymerized at a pressure of 10 to 50 bar, a temperature of 50 to 100° C. and an average dwelling time of the reaction mixture of 0.3 to 5 hours in the presence of at least 2.0% by volume, based on the total volume, of hydrogen. The propylene homopolymer obtained in said first polymerization step is transferred together with the Ziegler-Natta catalyst system into an intermediate container, expanded for 0.01 to 5 minutes to less than 5 bar and maintained at a temperature of 10 to 80° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2001Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Ulrich Dahn, Wolfgang Bidell, Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann, Roland Hingmann, Joachim Rösch, Günther Schweier, Jürgen Oelze
-
Publication number: 20070010625Abstract: Olefin polymer composition comprising (by weight, unless otherwise specified): A) 60-95% of a propylene homopolymer or copoloymer having a Polydispersity Index (P.I.) value of from 4.6 to 10 and a content of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C NMR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 98 molar, B) 5-40% of a copolymer of ethylene containing from 40% to 70% of propylene or C4-C10 ?-olefins) or of combinations thereof, and optionally minor proportions of a diene; said composition having a Temperature Rising Elution Fractionation (TREF) profile, obtained by fractionation in xylene and collection of fractions at temperatures of 40° C., 80° C. and 90° C., in which the ethylene content Y of the fraction collected at 90° C. satisfies the following relation (1): Y?0.8+0.035X+0.0091X2 wherein X is the ethylene content of the fraction collected at 40° C. and both X and Y are expressed in percent by weight, and a value of intrinsic viscosity [?] of the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: Bassell Polioefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Jean News, Paola Massari, Hans-Jurgen Zimmermann
-
Publication number: 20060188411Abstract: A centrifuge has a bucket for receiving the product to be centrifuged, and a support which is configured to be inserted in the bucket and receive microtiter plates and the like. The support has substantial stability and comprises a generally planar base and four upstanding lateral walls which are integrally formed with the base and which are coupled together at their upper edges to form a substantially self-contained enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Jurgen Zimmermann, Christian Boulin, Vladimir Benes, Leo Burger
-
Publication number: 20060067568Abstract: A method and device for identifying objects, especially teeth, on a digitized X-ray picture, by using image processing algorithms to localize areas containing the object by segmenting and/or edge detection, these areas being computationally linked with parameters of the X-ray unit and, optionally, with patient-heightened specific parameters. Another method and device for assigning information to objects, especially teeth, determined in a digitized X-ray picture or in a schematic representation, includes a first step detecting the digitized X-ray image for the schematic representation, a second step in which a determination of objects manually or automatically ensues in the event these objects have not yet been determined, a third step selecting the object for which additional information should be stored, retrieved or deleted, and a fourth step in which a reference tht is stored is followed for a query operation to determine the information displayed by using such reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2005Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventor: Jurgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: 7010153Abstract: A method and device for identifying objects, especially teeth, on a digitized X-ray picture, by using image processing algorithms to localize areas containing the object by segmenting and/or edge detection, these areas being computationally linked with parameters of the X-ray unit and, optionally, with patient-heightened specific parameters. Another method and device for assigning information to objects, especially teeth, determined in a digitized X-ray picture or in a schematic representation, includes a first step detecting the digitized X-ray image for the schematic representation, a second step in which a determination of objects manually or automatically ensues in the event these objects have not yet been determined, a third step selecting the object for which additional information should be stored, retrieved or deleted, and a fourth step in which a reference that is stored is followed for a query operation to determine the information displayed by using such reference.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Sirona Dental Systems GmbHInventor: Jürgen Zimmermann
-
Publication number: 20050239967Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing propylene polymer compositions in in at least two-stage process wherein, in a first stage, a propylene homopolymer or a propylene copolymer comprising propylene and at least a CZ-CIO-1-alkenes other than propylene, containing at least 85% by weight of propylene, is prepared by polymerization and, in a second stage, ethylene and at least a comonomer selected from propylene and C4-C,o1alkenes are polymerized to give an ethylene polymer, comprising at least 90% by weight of ethylene, wherein the amount of the ethylene polymer in the propylene polymer composition ranges from 10 to 50% by weight and the propylene polymer composition has a melt flow rate MFR, in accordance with ISO 1133 at 230° C. and 2.16 kg, of from 2 to 50 g/10 min.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: October 27, 2005Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Ulrich Dahn, Wolfgang Bidell, Hans-Jurgen Zimmermann, Joachim Roesch, Guenther Schweier
-
Patent number: D538545Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Callegher Trading AGInventor: Jürgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: D539048Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Callegher Trading AGInventor: Jurgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: D539049Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Callegher Trading AGInventor: Jürgen Zimmermann
-
Patent number: D539050Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Callegher Trading AGInventor: Jürgen Zimmermann